Supervisors Canvass Municipal Election Vote

The Mahaska County Supervisors certified Tuesdays election results

Oskaloosa, Iowa- The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors canvased the results of Tuesday’s election officially certifying the winners. The board convened at 2:00 PM to hand-count the ballots from all communities in Mahaska County. Due to the amount of write in candidates, the task was lengthened.

Supervisors had to examine each write in candidate to verify names, as well as to make sure ballots were marked properly. Several ballots had to be discarded because voters had placed a “x” or a check mark in the oval. Auditor Kay Swanson stated during the canvass that the oval was to be filled in completely otherwise the ballot could not be counted.

In addition, some ballots could not be counted because a particular name was wrote in for more than one office. An example of this was in Oskaloosa where one person had voted for Jimmy Carter for more than one office. This ballot had to be disqualified.

It was also officially decided that there would have to be run off elections. Since several candidates did not achieve the required number of votes to be election, run-off elections will be held in Beacon and University Park on December 6^th. Beacon will elect two council members and University Park will elect one council member.

Below we have included a list of the official winners of Tuesday’s elections:

Barnes City:

Mayor- Nick Robertson

City Council- Donald Baker, Virgil Roorda

Beacon:

Mayor- Shawn Maxwell

City Council- Ken Allsup, Richard Thomas, Thomas Van Der Veer

Fremont:

Mayor- Edd Elder

Council- Cynthia Purdy, John VanZante

Council (unexpired term)- Michelle Rupprecht

Keomah Village:

Mayor- Mark Dejong

Council- Larry Boyer, Clark Johnson, Craig Coen, Amy Sarver, Jane Rudie

Public Measure- Yes carried

Leighton:

Mayor- Daniel Gleason

Council- Keith Beintema, Charles Boogard, William Bruxvoort, Kimberly Sytsma, Henry Van Roekel

New Sharon:

Mayor- Dustin Hite

Council- Larry Applegate, Lisa Munn

Oskaloosa:

Mayor- Dave Krutzfeldt

City Council- Tom Jimenez (2^nd Ward), Jason VanZetten (4^th Ward), Joe Caligiuri (At-Large)

Rose Hill:

Mayor- Barbara Schultz

Council- Wilda Collister, Seth Farlow, Terry Lowe, Kyle Morgan, Write-in (name not available)

University Park:

Mayor- George Toubekis

Council- Ben Doak